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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-12-02
STANLEY aud Tippoo lib.

From the Springfield Republican,
The report that Tippoo lib did not send
to Stanley ON his march TO
Emin Bey's government is greeted with an
81 told you so" by great many people who
seem to think they know more about the
Congo than Stanley himself, A despatch
of this sort from Washington appears in
the New York Evening Post, in which Tip
poo is called "a famous African chief, and
1.-THE head of a wild tribe whose headquar
ters are about Stanley Falls, and who has
always successfully opposed the Europeans
who have desired 10 pass above the falls
until the days of Stanley" Now Tippoo
Tib is an Arab slave-trader, operating for
a good many years in the region of the up
per Congo and the great lakes. No Euro
peans ever tried to pass above the falls be-
fore the days of Stanley, or even knew
that there were any falls there. Stanley
knew Tippoo very well before he entered
upon this expedition, and he resolved to
gain him as an ally and the most powerful
one he could have. To this end he pro
cured the mans appointment as governor
of Stanley Falls, in which capacity he Is
bound to put down slave trading and turns
in his banda heterogeneous force of hire
lings and not 'tribe"-as part of the
force of the Free State OF course It Is
risky to trust reformed slave-trader, but
Stanley is IA man who takes risks, and al
this distance. from mere rumors-and moth
ing better than rumors have arrived-it Is
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-12-02

A CAPITAL JoKE.-The following story
has its headquarters at Clinton On one of
the fine days of last week a lady came down
town to do some shopping. She brought
her "yearling" in baby carriage, which
she left at a certain dry goods store while
she went in to make her purchases. One
of the clerks in the store, who knew the
mother well, thought 10 play a joke. So
while she was busy he went out and wheel
ed the carriage and baby into an adjoining
store. Though he was not aware of it the
lady had been watching his manguvres, and
when she was ready TO go home she did so
without carriage or babe Shortly after
"bubbyn kicked up high iinks, and the joker
clerk was sent for to take him away And
as the mother was gone he was obliged to
wheel baby home, the youngster howling at
the top Of his voice nearly the whole way,
and advertising the situation, much to the an
noyance of the clerk When he reached the
gate the mother came out, and her exclama-
ton was "Dear me, l forgot a parcel
did / f" and ~ she saw the youngster I;
ooh, / thought II was spool of twist had
forgotten II was worse than II spool of
twist on the clerk Toronto GioLe
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MISCELLANY.



The rocks are imaged In the lake;
Nor winds nor waves the silence break;
White cities o'tr the waters CLEAN,
And natures self seems Ia dream,
As dreaming there fisher lay
Who'd caught no fish the live-lOng day
Around, from every hill and glen,
Rose mem res Of heroic men;
And, grandly towering over all,
mountain, like pedestal,
Had borne monarch to the skies,
A nations solemn sacrifice
But with high deeds the hero now
No longer wreath'd that mountains brow;
For in Gods heritage 80 fair
The cunning fox had made his lair,
Ard altar fires lay cold and dead
Beneath the foreign cong 'ror's tread.
The dreamer saw form appear
From out the waters, and draw near;
IL stopped before him on the beach
A cloud In shape, man ia speech
And said, Awake! aud follow me,
And cast your net in life's deep sea.
Three fishers rose and followed on,
Through the bright fields Of air and sun,
Till on pedestal they stand,
High DER a sin-accursed land;
Aud there the cloud In words Of grace
with other clouds talked face to face.
And as they fell like drops Of rain,
Those gracious WOfus on vines anu kIdiU,
These rpened into wine and bread
on which all famished souls are ied
And death. uprising from its shrOud.
For life immortal blessed the cloud
Not IN dew alone. or shower,
Fell those gracious words Of power;
Against a crag its side was rent,
Nherefrom its very life was spent;
Still glowing in immortal day,
And blessing still, II passed away.
The fisher woke, and near him stood
4 clOud-like image, Offering food,
For 10! live Goals were at its feet,
And on them fish enough TO eat
Nay, not enough alone, but more;
The net when cast came full to shore
Yea. full before the fishers sight
There stood the cloud OF Horeb's height
The cloud baptsmal that had glOwed
To show escaping slaves the road;
The same that filled the temple when
Gods fire came down to dwell with men.
The fisher was awake at last;
The dawn had come and night was past.
Strange was the vision strange as true
That vanished from his waking view;
But, stranger still that morning dream
Made all things else unreal seem.
John WGicOU Phelps
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When the Gnme used 10 be Exei.ing.

What lost AN eye, a leg, an arm,
And of your nosr herrft:
For veterans, sir. my heart is warm:
Let's shake the hand that's left.
\ comrade | am proud to see,
A comrade Of the war;
Pray tell me, sir, are you, like me,
one Of the G.. 4, Rs
never joined the G. 4. r.
The stranger thus began,
And | became not In the war
\ mutilated man.
He drew his form erect with pride,
And flushed his vlsage pale,
As in eNulting tones he cried,
II used TO kick with Yale
Rngfou Hott.jsi.
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The Century Magazine.

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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-09-09

can be built on the Sound, where
there are unsurpassed facilitates for
the manufacture OF cedar shingles.
The Oregonian, in speaking of the
growing demand for cedar shingles in
the East says: "This week Il local
house received a Geographic order for
fifty carloads of cedar shingles. Or
ders from Ohio, Missouri and other
Eastern points have been and are be-
ing filled almost daily. A Pittsburg
man desires Il great quantity, which
could not be supplied at this time"
Mrs Starkweather and her son DIR.
ID. ID. Starkwcather left Tacoma, on
Monday, on the overland train for their
home in keokuk, Iowa They were
accompanied by :. c. Woodruff,
who will go as far as Yakima. DR..
Starkweather is well known in Tacoma
and Olympia where he has hosts of
friends. He has been assistant
physician at the Fort Stcilacoom hos
pital for the insane for nearly two
years and during the past few weeks
he has been rapidly failing with con-
sumption. The board of trustees of
the asylum have appointed DIR. N.
Redpath of Olympia to succeed DR..
Starkweather.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-09-09


1T is safe to assert that Seattle will
not be much longer without first
class hotel, with the management of
the Occidental under the charge of a
gentleman of the ability and exper-
fence of Mr.. A. D. Whitney, and his
amiable and jealous wife. Already the
renovations and changes made have
created a feeling of confidence that
when the extension to the building is
erected and the plan is somewhat re-
modelled it will speedily rank with
the foremost hotels on the coast.
What Mr.. w. has done for the Carlton,
of this place-literally placing it at
the top of the list, and making it famous
all over the Coast for the excellence OF
its fare and manner of service-will,
we believe, soon be apparent on a
larger scale, in the management of the
Occidental. A great aid in the detail
work of this branch of the business
is afforded by the engagement of Mr.
William Jenkins, better known to the
patrons of the Carlton in his capacity
of chief steward as William" who
fills the same position in the Seattle
hotel. Mr.. Whitney still exercises SUI.
pervision of the Carlton, and we have
the assurance that it will maintain thu
enviable reputation it has secured al
over the Coast.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-09-09
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

Tacoma is to have a postal delivery
service after the LIST of November.
!. Mr.. Charles Bishop hase sold his
farm, in Lewis county, for $4,000.
A severe hailstorm passed over sec
ton north of Klickitat recently, killing
hens and chickens, and stripping trees
of their foliage.
The potato, vegetable and fruit crop
of Whatcom county will be abundant
with several hundred tons surplus for
outside markets.
The Tacoma Ledger says: Mr.. Har-
mon, owner of the opera house, re-
fused $4,000 for the property lately
The offer was made by gentle
man from Rochester, New York.
The Puyallup Indians were granted,
by an act of Congress at its last ses-
sion, the right of equal suffrage with
the whites. Many of the Indians are
expected to vote at the next cleo
ton.
Gus Peterson, n Swede, working in
the Port Gamble mill, while at the
planer on last Saturday afternoon, was
struck by heavy plank. The result
was that his left thigh was broken
just above the knee.
Spokane Falls city water is causing
much complaint, and the twenty-seven
deaths which occurred there between
the LIST and 25th of August are said to
be largely traced to the impure water
and inefficient sewerage system.
Information comes from LaConner
that DR.. Calhoun has realized from
fourteen acres of hay, grown on his
grain farm, five tons to the acre. The
place was rented on shares and the
doctor cleared $34 per acre from the
fourteen-acre hay field.
There is strong company being
formed by Portland and Puget Sound
parties to open up the Eureka lime
kiln on San Juan island. The COM
pany expect to put in about 100000
and as soon as arrangements can be
made quite an extensive business will
be carried ON in that line.
| A Port Townsend letter of last Fri
day says: "The articles OF incorpora-
ton for the Port Townsend and South
ern railroad have been received from
San Francisco, signed by California
capitalists. These articles are to be
filed at Olympia next week. The route
is along the coast to the Columbia
river. The capital stock is $4,000, 900,
). divided into 80, 600 shares of 800 each. j."
Last week syndicate of timber land
owners disposed of large body of
timber near the shores of Hoods Canal
for $11 an acre. A capitalist of Ithaca,
New York, was the purchaser. The
timber of Washington Territory is be-
ginning to attract the attention it de-
serves from Eastern timber men, and
those owning good lands will be able to
get good prices for the same hereafter.
Yakima Signal: w. H. Dole, a
prominent New York hop buyer and
malster, was in town the latter part of
last week, making arrangements and
viewing the country. Mr.. Dole has
a hop farm of 65 acres in Chenango
county, N. ", but he unqualifiedly
pronOunces the Washington Territory
hop peer of any other. He says the de-
mand for Washington Territory hops
is growing as they become better
known, and that often when there is a
call for them Oregon hops are palmed
off on the buyer.
A great shingle-making industry
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-09-09
Proposals Wanted

SEALED proposals in duplicate, will be re
= ceived by the Board of Trustees Of the Hos
pital for the Insane in Washington Territory,
until September 20, lss7, at O'Clock A. NJ, for
furnishing the supplies hereinafter named de
livered on Steilacoom wharf or Lakeview station
in one shipment, within twenty days after award
of contract. Everything TO be OF best quality,
and. when so designated, samples required
Goods found to be inferior to sample by which
the award was made will be returned at the ex
pense of the contractor.
Separate bids will be received for groceries,
dry goods, flour and feed, drugs, meat, hard
ware, etc.
Duplicate bids are required, written in ink,
prices carried out and footings made for each
class. Samples to be labelled with name of bid
der.
One fourth of one per cent. advantage will be
given to parties bidding to deliver fresh meat at
the Hospital kitchen.
Bids to be sent to S. c. Woodruff Secretary
Board OF Trustees Fort Steilacoom, W. T., and
marked" Sealed Proposals for Supplies"
The Trustees reserve the right to reject any or
all bids, and no bids will be received from firms
outside of Washington Territory. except for
wooden goods. a. +. TULLIS.
W. H. PUMPHREY,.
GEO. ID. SHANNON,
Trustees HOSnital for Insane